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Someone at that protest. ekshully two people appear to be doing MDIA 101 at VukUni:
Can we trust the media?
Do they provide fairness?
Or push agendas?
And hide information?
Please think about it
and then the other pearl of wisdom, there with her best friend mum – clutching her pearls, proud of her daughters certificate.
“Hey STUFF, I can teach you how to pan”
Look at moi, look at moi. My daughter/son/it-of fluid identity is rilly rilly espirational, and I rilly believe its going to go far, and I’ll stand behind it in whatever its endeavour may prove to be. (Hopefully a slot on TVNZ’s Breakfast)
You have to wonder why Harry Tam gets nearly 3 million for a small pilot while other programmes are run off the smell of an oily rag and seem a lot more deserving to have government money, as they are the abused not abusers.
Healing by horse: ‘I’m a changed man now’
https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/countrylife/audio/2018830173/healing-by-horse-i-m-a-changed-man-now
Government/police money from proceeds of crime should be spread between multiple programmes to help community programmes in small amounts aka $30k per year, not millions for a gang member turned media personality turned government committee member, who 90% of Kiwis probably don’t think should be given government money at all and causing more lack of confidence in government, while sending the wrong messages about police proceeds of crime….
In NZ it increasingly pays to be a criminal and victims are left out in the cold.
Could be immediate ban, but still good news in the right direction.
In 2006, Iceland resumed full-blown commercial whaling, including endangered Fin whales and Sei whales, exporting primarily to Japan.
Following a drop in demand for whale meat and an increase in public pressure to promote whale watching instead, Iceland has announced the end of its whaling program in 2024!
Now if you believe vaccination is genocide, as 2 of my close relatives do, then any violence in response is justified. Bodyguards for the top politicians with uzis please. Do not take the psychos lightly, whatever our easy-going history.
I have just looked at the images of floods on the West Coast SI. Then the3 day rain forecast and the colour density of NZ fall, shows that they are being hit mightily again. I think that the time has come to be practical rather than aspirational with their request to use water as a money-making resource, through local electricity and other means. A picturesque valley and waterway was turned down but perhaps some other suitable valley can be flooded for electricity, and water gathered and shipped in bulk to Australia, rather than bottled. Some practical forward planning for hard times ahead and suitable schemes started; , perhaps the fishers could be persuaded to change methods and quotas so that Maui dolphins can survive, and fisherpersons be given water shares in a local water trust nstead.
Giving money away without much transparency, doesn’t seem to be working to resolve treaty or health issues…
Northland GP practices leaving Mahitahi Hauora primary health entity
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/northern-advocate/news/northland-gp-practices-leaving-mahitahi-hauora-primary-health-entity/HAAG4FE5QALELGOHWIEOOPAUPM/?&ref=topbox
Not sure NZ health is going to be better off when they can’t retain GP’s… increasingly GP’s are giving up or are going part time with medicine. It is too hard to deal with a difficult job, that is not made easier by stupid bureaucrat decisions over their heads.
Precursor to how 3 waters will be, the same failed water system, with more overheads and greater plutocracy dressed as cultural issues, less transparency, and more costs that water users have to pay for.
My social policy uni course passed on the information that after getting a law passed, with wording vetted, getting it carried out well and effectively by the workers and managers is the next obstacle. So many hurdles, so little improvement.
From savenz above. Not sure NZ health is going to be better off when they can’t retain GP’s… increasingly GP’s are giving up or are going part time with medicine. It is too hard to deal with a difficult job, that is not made easier by stupid bureaucrat decisions over their heads.
When anything gets entrenched, everyone accepts the status quo. Nurses used to have to take refresher courses regularly. That would keep their thinking from setting like concrete. Let’s all do that, open up night classes and give certificates through the NCEA for most subjects. Encourage creative, healthy thinking from the brain, not just from the bum cheeks formed into house shapes. It’s healthy to step away from the computer every half an hour or so, and enter into human life again I suggest.
Good if we can come up with positive ideas for our nation’s healthy growth, not just criticism and sneers about citizens who zig-zag away from the norm. Compare Lake Alice outcomes and what the Kellogs did below. I don’t know if they ever abused anybody or allowed it to happen, but would surely have been better than Lake Alice’s debacle.
https://99wfmk.com/kellogg-mansion/
Before W.K. Kellogg became the world’s most famous cereal mogul, he began his business life at seven years old; he did odd jobs in order to buy clothes for himself. At 14 years old, he became a broom salesman.
A few years later, he decided to help his brother John run the Battle Creek Sanitarium. The sanitarium administered different types of health therapies, dietetics, and other forms of health principles. That’s how the Kellogg’s cereal industry got its start.
Read More: Inside the Mansion of the ‘Cereal King’, W.K. Kellogg | https://99wfmk.com/kellogg-mansion/?utm_source=tsmclip&utm_medium=referral
We will always be stuck with hearing about failed humanitarian responses not smart Sanitarium responses!) if we don’t change to keeping a desire for kindness as a weapon for good, rather than punitive responses, with hate at the background with similar responses to both bad people and irritating people. One generic size fits all seems the way we are going. My generic response is That’s Bad!
Janis Ian has everyone heard of her. From my past re,e,nered well.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/concert/programmes/newhorizons/audio/2018829316/janis-ian-the-light-at-the-end-of-the-line
The Light at the End of the Line, Janis Ian’s first album of new material for 15 years, prompts me to drift back to 1966, and the 15-year-old singer’s controversial debut, the song ‘Society’s Child’.
This was written when America was still embroiled in the Civil Rights struggle and it took some time for some radio stations to brave up and put in on their playlists. However, Leonard Bernstein’s passionate television advocacy for both the singer and her song secured Ian a contract with one of the most pulse-conscious labels of the time — Verve-Forecast….
And her song about the uncertainties of Being 17 would be good for some of the trans-iting youngsters to listen to. There is so much scar tissue around those growing up years sometimes. It’s got a lot to say and rather poignantly.
To those of us who knew the pain
Of valentines that never came
And those whose names were never called
When choosing sides for basketball
It was long ago and far away
The world was younger than today
When dreams were all they gave for free
To ugly duckling girls like me
https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/janisian/atseventeen.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUydOqxhDQg
I’m Still Standing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y93NZWb7oLw